Species Pingellus nigroflavus Evans, 1966

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• Pingellus nigroflavus Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [230].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂ (coll.: ii.1958, I.C. Yeo), Lamington National Park, Queensland.

 

Introduction

This distinctively coloured black and orange striped species is unmistakeable. It has been collected in rainforests in SE Queensland and NE New South Wales using light traps and malaise traps.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

A striking species black and orange in colour. Face black, except for a few transverse brown markings on the postclypeus posteriorly, and a transverse yellow marking on the frons which is continuous laterally on the vertex on each side, where it is amalgamated with the apices of a postfrontal transverse, orange stripe. Crown anteriorly black, posteriorly deep orange. Pronotum with five and scutellum with four longitudinal deep orange stripes. Tegmen hyaline yellow, apically and anteapically suffused with brown; veins broadly dark brown. Length ♂ 4 mm (Evans 1966).

 

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [230]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
05-Dec-2019		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)